British actress, Hilary Heath suffered complications from the Coronavirus pandemic, and has finally passed.
Hilary Heath died at the age of 74. She will be remembered for her production and acting in Witchfinder General and Wuthering Heights.
The actress is originally known as Hilary Dwyer. She kick-started her acting career between the late 1960s and early 1970s.
During this period, Hilary starred in several horror movies from the American International Pictures.
She also featured on divers TV shows which includes The Challengers, The Avengers, Man at the Top and Space: 1999 and several others.
Hilary Heath’s godson, Alex Williams has also gone on Facebook to pay respect to her. He revealed on the tribute-post how the actress made a somewhat remarkable re-invention of her career after she won a master’s degree in psychology from Oxford University in mid-60s.
He revealed she went on to become an addicted counsellor, specialising in CBT. Alex added that Hilary worked in numerous clinics around the world, but she often do it free and with no charges. He went on to state how she regarded working with distressed and deprived people her most valuable work.
Read his full text below;
“We lost my wonderful Godmother Hilary Heath to Covid-19 last week. Hilary had many careers, starting out as a screen and stage actress in the 1960s and 1970s, and then re-inventing herself as a producer in the 1990s, making films like Nil by Mouth (Gary Oldman) and An Awfully Big Adventure (Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman).
“Her most remarkable re-invention came in her mid-60s, when she won a master’s degree from Oxford in psychology and became an addiction counsellor, specialising in CBT. She worked at clinics all over the world, often for free, often with very deprived and distressed individuals, and she regarded this as her most valuable work by far. She was a force of nature, and I can’t bear it that she is no longer with us.”
Hilary is survived by her son, Big Eyes composer Daniel Heath and her daughter, Laura Heath.
Plans towards her memorial service are yet to be announced.
